Kongjian Yu, Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, is a recipient of Doctor of Design at Harvard GSD and the founder of the College of Architecture and Landscape at Peking University and the founder and design principle of Turenscape. His projects won numerous international awards including 12 ASLA Excellence and Honor Awards, 5 WAF World Best Landscape of The Year Awards and ULI Global Award of Excellence. He lectured worldwide and taught as visiting professor at Harvard GSD from 2010 to 2015. He was elected Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016, and received the Doctor Honoris Causa from the Sapienza University of Rome in 2017.